COSTA MESA

You don’t always have to pave paradise to put up a parking lot. At the new Downtown Community Center, there will be a little bit of both, supporters say. Planning commissioners approved a redesign of the downtown community center that provides enough space for a landscaped area and a parking lot where the recreation building stands. An 18,000-square-foot center will replace a World War II-era building, and cost about $3 million. The city hopes to have the new center completed by 2000.